Today we made and Ubuntu ARM Server AMI on Amazon’s EC2. This is a 12.04 ARMhf image running on an emulated Calxeda system. Thanks to Dann Frazier for doing a bunch of the heavy lifting, you can find information on the image here:

This AMI is primarily for developers wishing to experiment with Ubuntu ARM Server. Performance is limited due to the emulation overhead. Look for AMI ID `ami-aef328c7`.

Note: this AMI requires the use of an m1.large instance type due to memory requirements.

]]>http://cloud.ubuntu.com/2012/05/ready-to-try-arm-on-the-cloud-try-it-on-amazon-ec2/feed/2Juju, MAAS, and VirtualBoxhttp://marcoceppi.com/2012/05/juju-maas-virtualbox/
http://marcoceppi.com/2012/05/juju-maas-virtualbox/#commentsTue, 22 May 2012 21:01:00 +0000http://marcoceppi.com/?p=328http://cloud.ubuntu.com/2012/05/juju-maas-and-virtualbox/feed/0Announcing the UDS Juju Charm Contest for UDS attendeeshttp://cloud.ubuntu.com/2012/04/announcing-the-uds-juju-charm-contest-for-uds-attendees/
http://cloud.ubuntu.com/2012/04/announcing-the-uds-juju-charm-contest-for-uds-attendees/#commentsWed, 25 Apr 2012 22:16:06 +0000http://cloud.ubuntu.com/?p=34531It’s time for another Juju Charm Contest, where you can submit your charms and win fabulous prizes! This contest is for Ubuntu Developer Summit Attendees; and our prizes are three sexy Dell XPS 13 ultrabooks, which we’ll be awarding to the three lucky winners of the contest.

So how can you win yourself one of these? Well, with 66 services already ready to be deployed on the cloud we’re always looking for more, so have a look at what you think is missing from the Juju Charm Store and submit your charm as an entry.

We’ve got the step-by-step instructions on how to write your own charm, we’re looking for things DevOps deploy to the cloud, so be creative! You have from now until May 09 to submit your charm. At that point we’ll judge the entries, and then give out the Dell XPS 13′s during the last day of the Ubuntu Developer Summit, so if you’re missing your favorite service from the Charm Store, submit an entry and you’ll automatically be entered in the contest.

Full contest rules here, including the judging criteria, so you’ll want to read that before you get started. Happy Charming!

]]>http://cloud.ubuntu.com/2012/04/announcing-the-uds-juju-charm-contest-for-uds-attendees/feed/7juju client now available for Mac OSXhttp://cloud.ubuntu.com/2012/04/juju-client-now-available-for-mac-osx/
http://cloud.ubuntu.com/2012/04/juju-client-now-available-for-mac-osx/#commentsTue, 24 Apr 2012 15:55:47 +0000http://cloud.ubuntu.com/?p=34464Brandon Holtsclaw has published a Mac port of juju. This will enable Mac users to deploy to their Ubuntu Servers from the comfort of their home operating system. Brandon adds along:

Pull Requests or filing Issue’s are more than Welcome’d from anyone.

Need help getting started with juju? Check out our Getting Started documentation and then browse through the Charm Store to see what you can start deploying today!

]]>http://cloud.ubuntu.com/2012/04/juju-client-now-available-for-mac-osx/feed/0Announcing the Ubuntu Cloud Summit, 8 May, Oakland, Californiahttp://cloud.ubuntu.com/2012/04/announcing-the-ubuntu-cloud-summit-8-may-oakland-california/
http://cloud.ubuntu.com/2012/04/announcing-the-ubuntu-cloud-summit-8-may-oakland-california/#commentsTue, 10 Apr 2012 20:03:10 +0000http://cloud.ubuntu.com/?p=34095Canonical in collaboration with Redmonk will be hosting “The Ubuntu Cloud Summit” – a one day event for both technology and business attendees interested in how open-source cloud computing can help their organisations.

The event takes place on Tuesday 8th May, at the The Oakland Marriott City Center Hotel, and runs in conjunction with UDS.

The agenda is still being defined, but the sessions will cover some interesting ideas, challenges and trends around cloud computing and how attendees can deploy an open cloud in their organisation.

Topics will include:

The Open Cloud - The role of open source in cloud computing—particularly how an open cloud enables a more flexible, vendor-neutral approach.

Lessons from cloud deployments - Open cloud deployments are real and growing. We’ll discuss and illustrate through case studies the best approaches to deploying and maximising an open cloud.

Open-source cloud technologies - With Ubuntu including technologies such as OpenStack, MAAS and Juju, we’ll examine how they come together to form an open cloud.

The cost of a ticket for attending this event is $100 which includes lunch and refreshments.

]]>http://cloud.ubuntu.com/2012/04/announcing-the-ubuntu-cloud-summit-8-may-oakland-california/feed/0juju Charm Contest winners!http://cloud.ubuntu.com/2012/04/juju-charm-contest-winners/
http://cloud.ubuntu.com/2012/04/juju-charm-contest-winners/#commentsTue, 10 Apr 2012 17:00:04 +0000http://cloud.ubuntu.com/?p=34088The community submitted over 10 charms as part of the juju charm contest. The judges have deliberated and have picked the following winners:

The Grand Prize ($300 Amazon Gift Card) goes to Jimmi Andersen for his charm that deploys Appflower, a Rapid Application Development (RAD) tool for building web applications. You can check out the charm in the store for deployment instructions. The judges were impressed by how complete the charm is and how it brings software to Ubuntu that was previously only available by installing it by hand.

The 2 runners up (in no particular order) are Kees Cook for sbuild, and Ben Kerensa for Subway. sbuild provides a build environment for developers to test packages against and has been used for portable “hackathons” where having the packages build on the cloud is quicker and more convenient than building on your local machines. The Subway charm deploys the Subway IRC client, a sexy web based IRC client that uses Node.js and MongoDB. Thanks Ben and Kees, you’ll each receive a $100 Amazon gift card.

The charm store continues to grow as we now have over 73 total charms. The following people contributed charms to the contest and will each receive a Juju tshirt and Ubuntu travel mug: Patrick Hetu (znc and OpenERP), Atul Jha (OwnCloud), Nathan Osman (StackMobile), shazzner (Gitolite), and Brandon Holtsclaw (Drupal). Honorable mention goes to Ryan Kather, who attempted Moodle but was not able to complete it in time. Maybe next time! We’ll go deeper into these charms and show off their examples throughout the coming weeks.

Not finding what you need in the Charm Store? Well you can always contribute your own charms, here’s how you can get started.

UK cloud provider Brightbox would like to announce that they now have daily images of Ubuntu 12.04 available for testing. Brightbox has an EC2 compatible metadata service that works with Ubuntu’s cloud-init, you can find more about that in the documentation.

As a thank you to the Ubuntu community Brightbox is running a special through to September. A 10% discount to casual testers, and a 50% discount to anyone registering using their @ubuntu.com address.

]]>http://cloud.ubuntu.com/2012/04/brightbox-12-04-daily-images-now-available-discounts-for-testers-and-ubuntu-members/feed/4juju contest entries now due, contest closed.http://cloud.ubuntu.com/2012/03/juju-contest-entries-now-due-contest-closed/
http://cloud.ubuntu.com/2012/03/juju-contest-entries-now-due-contest-closed/#commentsTue, 27 Mar 2012 00:59:16 +0000http://cloud.ubuntu.com/?p=33642Ok pencils down everyone! The entries for the juju charm contest are now closed, we’ll have one week of review and then announce the winners!
]]>http://cloud.ubuntu.com/2012/03/juju-contest-entries-now-due-contest-closed/feed/0juju Charm Contest extended over the weekend.http://cloud.ubuntu.com/2012/03/juju-charm-contest-extended-over-the-weekend/
http://cloud.ubuntu.com/2012/03/juju-charm-contest-extended-over-the-weekend/#commentsFri, 23 Mar 2012 16:41:59 +0000http://cloud.ubuntu.com/?p=33564Due to a recent surge of interest in juju we’ve decided to extend the juju Charm Contest deadline to this Monday instead of today, that gets you an extra weekend of hacking if you’re interest in polishing up your charm.

We’ll still have all next week for you to fix up your entries to pass reviews. Happy charming!

]]>http://cloud.ubuntu.com/2012/03/juju-charm-contest-extended-over-the-weekend/feed/1Reminder: juju Charm Contest entries due by this Friday!http://cloud.ubuntu.com/2012/03/reminder-juju-charm-contest-entries-due-by-this-friday/
http://cloud.ubuntu.com/2012/03/reminder-juju-charm-contest-entries-due-by-this-friday/#commentsTue, 20 Mar 2012 13:48:27 +0000http://cloud.ubuntu.com/?p=33401Just a quick reminder that if you’re planning on competing in the juju Charm Contest that all entries are due by this Friday!